It’s time once again for the monthly reporting roundup, where you can read my wry commentary about the news instead of subjecting yourself to boring rehashes of the NWMLS press release (or in addition to, if that’s what floats your boat). To kick things off, here’s an excerpt from the NWMLS press release: Home sales…
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News, current events, etc.
What a Difference a Few Years Makes
Yesterday’s Seattle Times front page caught my attention, and reminded me of a similar front page just a few years ago… Yes, they’re charting different things, and yes, this Sunday’s story isn’t directly about real estate, but the similar visual style coupled with such starkly different tones still struck me as interesting. The 2006 story:…
Weekly Twitter Digest (Link Roundup) for 2011-12-03
Claim: "Trend for smaller new homes expected to continue" http://t.co/VxpNZyGb via @mynorthwest # Whoa, ground finally being broken on new apartment at old Ballard Denny's site: http://t.co/2BqhNF7h via @seattletimes # "Occupy" protestors squatting in vacant foreclosed homes "on behalf of the former owners" http://t.co/WGk6GxU1 via @seattletimes # RT @Seattle_Condos: Lumen Condo Once $449,900, Priced At…
Case-Shiller: Six to Sixteen Years of Lost Appreciation
Okay one last Case-Shiller post this week: The national “rewind” map, and the month-to-month city count visualization. First up, the map. As a refresher, in the map below I’ve put the Case-Shiller home price index data from all twenty cities on a map. The size of each circle represents how far back prices have rewound…
Washington State Budget Woes: Where’s the Beef?
This is fairly off-topic (although we have covered this subject occasionally in the past), but with all the teeth-gnashing I’ve been reading about lately regarding the latest round of supposedly major cuts required to keep state spending in line with revenues, I thought it might be interesting to look at a couple of charts on…